tombroucke/otomaties-core

Optimize WordPress installation for performance, security etc.

2.2.1 2026-06-05 13:00 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.0
• composer/installers: ^1.0 || ^2.0

Requires (Dev)

• laravel/pint: ^1.26
• php-stubs/woocommerce-stubs: ^9.5
• php-stubs/wp-cli-stubs: ^2.12
• phpstan/extension-installer: ^1.3
• phpunit/phpunit: ^11.5
• squizlabs/php_codesniffer: ^3.7
• szepeviktor/phpstan-wordpress: ^1.3

MIT

• Tom Broucke

README

Installation

composer require tombroucke/otomaties-core

Features

ACF

• Hide ACF screen in production (WP_ENV == 'production') & staging environments (WP_ENV == 'staging'). To overrule: add_filter('acf/settings/show_admin', '__return_false');

Admin

• Disable comments, remove from admin. To enable comments: add_filter('otomaties_open_comments', '__return_true');
• Adds an environment indicator for staging and development environments. To disable: add_filter('otomaties_enable_environment_indicator', '__return_false');

Branding

• Logo on login screen
• Logo in toolbar
• Admin footer

To disable: add_filter('otomaties_whitelabel', '__return_true'); or installed the mu-plugin: composer require tombroucke/whitelabel-otomaties-core

Frontend

• Disable emojis. To enable: add_filter('otomaties_disable_emojis', '__return_false');
• Set default image link type to 'file'. To change: add_filter('otomaties_set_default_image_default_link_type', '__return_false');
• Clean up head section
• Redirect single search result. To disable: add_filter('otomaties_redirect_single_search_result', '__return_false');
• Add shortcode for e-mailaddress obfuscation: [email][e-mail][email] or [email address="[e-mail]"]

Security

Notices for

• WP_DEBUG or DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT is TRUE
• debug.log is publicly accesible
• No security plugin active.

Login screen

• Add generic error to login screen

SSL

• Force HTTPS on attachments

General

• Disable updating of critical options users_can_register & default_role. To disable: add_filter('otomaties_disable_update_critical_options', '__return_false');

Otomaties Connect

• Otomaties connect can fetch data over the rest API. Secured authentication with a public/private key pair.

Connection

In your .env file or wp-config.php file, add the OTOMATIES_CONNECT_KEY constant from the Otomaties connect portal.

OTOMATIES_CONNECT_KEY='XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX'

define('OTOMATIES_CONNECT_KEY', 'XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX');

Revision

• revision.txt needs to be in web root
• format: 'YmdHis {{commit hash}}'
• Show revision in admin footer for administrator role
• Show revision in console for all environments except production

To disable revisions: add_filter('otomaties_display_revision', '__return_false');

Building

There is a separate command to build the vendor_prefixed directory. Additional production dependencies should be added in the composer.json file under extra.require-scoped, after which the vendor_prefixed should be rebuilt.

Prerequisites

• jq (brew install jq)
• php-scoper (composer global require humbug/php-scoper)

Build command

• To build the vendor_prefixed directory, run bash scoper.sh.